---
title: 'The Story of the Birth'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'George Tybout Purves'
date: 1896-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Messianic, New Testament Prophecy, and Old Testament Prophecy'
- 'Hermeneutics'
- 'Biblical History'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 7'
- 'Matthew 1'
- 'Luke 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/purves-1896-the-story-of-the-birth
---

# The Story of the Birth

Examines Isaiah's child prophecies and compares Matthew and Luke's infancy narratives, highlighting Messianic fulfillment, differing purposes, and the narratives' historicity.

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